Uncommon Valor

Uncommon Valor is a 1983 war film written by Joe Gayton and directed by Ted Kotcheff, about a U.S. Marine officer who puts together a team to try to rescue his son, who he believes is among those still held in Laos after the Vietnam War. The film stars Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Reb Brown, Robert Stack, Michael Dudikoff, and, in an early screen appearance, Patrick Swayze.

After petitioning the United States government for help, but receiving none, Colonel Rhodes brings together a disparate group of Vietnam War veterans, including some who were a part of Franks platoon Wilkes Fred Ward, a tunnel rat who suffers from PTSD Blaster, a demolitions expert Reb Brown and Sailor, a mental case with a heart of gold Randall Tex Cobb. Additionally, two helicopter pilots, Distinguished Flying Cross recipient Johnson Harold Sylvester and Charts Tim Thomerson join the group. Former Force Recon Marine Kevin Scott Patrick Swayze joins the team and later turns out to be the son of a pilot who was shot down in Vietnam and listed as MIA.With the financial backing of rich oil businessman McGregor whose son served in Franks platoon and is also listed among the missing Robert Stack, the men train near Galveston, Texas before embarking on their trip to the Laos camp in an attempt to bring back the POWs. However, the CIA, fearing an international crisis from Rhodes actions, intercepts him in Bangkok and confiscates his weapons and equipment. Still determined to rescue their comrades, the team members put together their expense money given to them by McGregor, and Rhodes contacts an acquaintance of his, deposed local drug baron Jiang Kwan Hi Lim, who joins the expedition with his two daughters Lai Fun Alice Lau Nga Lai and Mai Lin Debi Parker and manages to supply them with outdated but capable World War II weapons. In the course of the expedition Charts gradually forms a relationship with Lai Fun. ........

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